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100

Who led a boycott when refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man?

Who is Rosa Parks

100

SNCC

What is the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee?

100

MLK made his famous "I have a dream speech" during this event.

What is the March on Washington?

100

Name the 2 wars fought during the cold war where the norther part of the country was supported by communist and the southern part was democratic.

Korean War and Vietnam War

100

What were the main 2 countries that opposed each other during the cold war? 

US and USSR

200
Who was the president who was embarrassed by the actions toward African Americans who was later shot and killed?
Who is JFK?
200

In 1968 the Vietnamese launched a major attack on most major cities across Vietnam. It was a turning point in the Vietnam war where the US realized they could not win. 

Tet Offensive 

200

Name the senator who claimed to have a list of 205 men working for the US Government that were communist. 

Joseph Mcarthy ( McCarthyism) 

200
What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminate?
What are literacy tests?
200

What is the name of the failed invasion of Cuba by JFK?

Bay of Pigs

300
Who was the president who was able to get the Civil Rights bill passed?
Who is Lyndon Johnson
300
Who were some of the influencers that MLK got his ideas of non violent protest from ( name at least 2) 

Gandi, Jesus, Philip Randolf

300
Three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement
What were the Selma to Montgomery Marches?
300

Taxes required to vote in the Jim Crow South that made it hard for minorities to vote.

What are poll taxes?

300
African Americans and whites together rode various forms of public transportation in the South to challenge local laws or customs that enforced segregation
What are the Freedom Riders?
400
MLK was the leader of this Civil Rights organization.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
400
This was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
400
Martin Luther King Jr. encourages this amongst his followers at the start of the civil rights movement?
What is non-violence?
400

Very tense time in US history where Cuba had partnered with the Communist USSR to host nuclear weapons ( 90 miles from the tip of Florida ) 

Cuban Missile Crisis 

400
He was the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era
Who was Jackie Robinson?
500

This President issues and Executive Order to desegregate the Military in 1948

Truman 

500
In 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out his state's National Guard to block these students from entering high school.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
500
A landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
500
What two leaders were shot and killed in 1968?
Who are Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy
500

What were the to plans put forth by the US to help contain communism and build back Europe after WWII? 

Truman Doctrine and Marshal Plan

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